Love is Love

Hey everyone… how is your year going so far?  Hope you managing to find time to create in all of the chaos going on around us.

As Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us, I thought I’d use my DT make for this week to spread a little love and use this fabulous set, Love is Love, from Visible Image.

Every time I use this set, I love how it turns out no matter what colours or what mediums I choose to use and for Valentine’s Day it is bang on absolutely totally perfect for everyone.

To start, I stamped both profiles onto watercolour card and then sprinkled with clear embossing powder.  Once cooled, I used watercolours to add the three colour.

I also stamped extras of the little images from the profiles (the flower, butterfly, moth etc) as I wanted to layer these later on.

I wanted a card that could be sent to anyone so chose the colours accordingly and used watercolours to get the fluid effect.

Once trimmed, I’ve coloured the ‘extra’ images too and added foam tape to the backs. I decided to add some cheesecloth like I normally do (I finds it separates the layers and adds texture) but not actually sure it’s worked this time round as on closer it looks like a big hairy wart maybe?! I can’t unseeded it now I see it – if you get me!

To try and lessen the look of the cheesecloth, I decided to stamp and layer the small images once again to draw your eye away. I then fussy cutting around each shape, coloured with a contrasting colour and then layered with foam tape before slightly shaping the wings and petals.

To accentuate the ‘love’ word on the right profile, I stamped it again and then used Spun Sugar (the same as I would later use on the background) to add colour.

The background is made using the two small heart stamps from the Have I Told You set which I’ve stamped using VersaFine Clair (Charming Pink, Monach and Paradise) and then heat embossed using Wow’s clear embossing powder. Over this I’ve used Distress oxide ink pads (Spun Sugar, Shaded Lilac and Tumbled Glass) to create a wash.

For the main sentiment, I’ve stamped two ‘love’ sentiments using the Forever Love set (as it’s a slightly larger text) and then used the same watercolour colours as I used on the profile to colour.

All that remained then was to assemble the card and matt it onto black card to make those colours pop!

I absolutely love this set. So many different elements to pick out and use even if you don’t want the profiles, you could still stamp the images freehand so avoid the edges. Ooh… just had an idea! Haha!

As always, check out the Visible Image Facebook group for challenges, giveaways and loads of inspiration. If you’re on Instagram, tag any projects you make using Visible Image products with #visibleimage so everyone that follows the hashtag can see them and they are some incredible makes from all around the world cropping up.

I’ll be back again soon with another DT make. Look after yourselves. H xx